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Title
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Dundy, Hitchcock, Redwillow, Furnas Counties, 1912
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Date
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1912
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Creator
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Frank Shoemaker
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Description
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Sandhills Narratives
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Identifier
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321301-191
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Transcription
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2 The soulless corporation positively refused to stop its Denver train at Haigler , the point of my desire. Hence it came to pass that I alighted at Benkelman , at about two o’clock in the afternoon of August 17th. I went into a restautant in search of information about the region, and the half dozen men who gave me of their knowledge seemed to have a pretty fair idea of the country. They discouraged my plan to go northeast of town, as the alleged “canyons” are 12 miles out “and not much when you git to ’em.” So I inquired about nearer areas of interest, and was told that I would find, three miles west, a “blow-out” about 40 acres in extent. After my observations in the great sand area to the northward, where a “blow-out” of two acres is large, I concluded that this would be worth visiting, and I set out at once. The most striking difference between this and the other sandhill areas of the state which I have visited is the continuity here of the vegetation, due to the character of the soil. In the great sandhill area north, in Cherry County and the tier of smaller counties south of it, the sand is almost pure, and the wind moves it about so readily that areas fully bound down by vegetation are rare except in the valleys between the hills. In this Dundee County area the soil is not a pure sand, but in reality a sandy loam, with little tendency to move under the action of the wind, and as a result the surface is much more
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Rights
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